No son los videojuegos, sino sus foros: por qué sabemos tan poco de la radicalización en los chats de ‘gamers’

El Congreso de EE UU convoca a ejecutivos de cuatro plataformas tras el asesinato de Charlie Kirk para preguntarles qué ocurre en Steam o Discord

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How Gamergate prefigured the modern far-right
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Cómo Gamergate prefiguró a la moderna ultraderecha

#gamergate #videogames #altright #4chan #troll

https://youtu.be/lLYWHpgIoIw?si=xy2bFahDtlKowshL

Endnote 5: A Case Study in Digital Radicalism (UC Merced Talk)

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For those of you that don't remember

#gamergate and the roots of the #charliekirk murder:Here's an 11+ y old artikel from #seriouspony. "Trouble at the Koolaid point". This is how it started.

https://businessofsoftware.org/2008/10/trouble-at-the-koolaid-point/

Trouble at the Koolaid Point – Business of Software

This blog post was posted by Kathy Sierra on October 7th 2014 on her personal site. It will be taken down from there at some point. It now appears on other sites including Wired magazine. We have posted it here with an old publication date so it is not easy to find but it is […]

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@Isabelle_Vannier @hallunke23 @jensscholz

#gamergate ist nicht Allgemeinbildung?

Auf der einen Seite verständlich, weil die Wahrnehmung von Gamergate eine recht spezielle Internet-Affinität voraussetzte.

Auf der anderen Seite befremdlich, weil es längst in den Kanon politischer Bildung Einzug erhalten sollte als Paradigmenwechsel der konzertierten politischen Kommunikation und Meinungsbildung.

Gamergate ist kein Thema von Computerspielen, es ist eine gesellschaftliche Zeitenwende.

Charlie Kirk : le Gamergate a un nouveau prétexte pour pousser le licenciements de développeuses dans le jeu vidéo

Le Gamergate s'est mis en ordre de bataille pour provoquer le licenciement de développeuses s'étant réjouies du décès de Charlie Kirk, figure de l'extrême

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When you think about it, there's a direct line from #gamerGate to #charlieKirk - both in his manifestation of Turning Point, and his death.

Most people have probably forgotten that GG was Nazi Indoctrination via culture

But you are completely right that #GamerGate was a turning point in the toxic gamer radicalization timeline. There was already a rich stew of toxicity for those seeking it, but GamerGate sure helped solidify it.

The longing for a single, central source of fun – something that recalls Twitter’s heyday, before the current fragmentation – is nostalgic. But for many on the fediverse, it’s a toxic form of nostalgia. As this book has shown, Mastodon in particular grew in relation to the faults of Twitter pre-Musk – the Twitter of #Gamergate and online harassment and trolling....

https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com

#MoveSlowlyAndBuildBridges #bot

Move Slowly and Build Bridges, by Robert W. Gehl

Culture War Origin Story: Great (short) history of Gamer Gate & how there's a direct line between that 1990s/2000s Internet skirmish & young male rage that led to Trumpism & today"s Red Pill bro culture.

Watch if you want to understand why young men (and not so young men) broke toward the #Antiwoke #AltRight

#Gamergate #Trumpism

https://youtu.be/MJU8xGudhnI

Remembering Gamergate, the Weirdest Thing That Ever Happened

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